COTY vs. ELF, NTCOY, IPAR, SCI, PPC, COKE, ARMK, NYT, INGR, and ACI
Should you be buying Coty stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Coty include e.l.f. Beauty (ELF), Natura &Co (NTCOY), Inter Parfums (IPAR), Service Co. International (SCI), Pilgrim's Pride (PPC), Coca-Cola Consolidated (COKE), Aramark (ARMK), New York Times (NYT), Ingredion (INGR), and Albertsons Companies (ACI). These companies are all part of the "consumer staples" sector.
Coty (NYSE:COTY) and e.l.f. Beauty (NYSE:ELF) are both mid-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, dividends, profitability, earnings, risk, analyst recommendations, community ranking, media sentiment and institutional ownership.
Coty presently has a consensus target price of $13.21, suggesting a potential upside of 21.42%. e.l.f. Beauty has a consensus target price of $184.33, suggesting a potential upside of 9.05%. Given Coty's higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Coty is more favorable than e.l.f. Beauty.
Coty has higher revenue and earnings than e.l.f. Beauty. Coty is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than e.l.f. Beauty, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, e.l.f. Beauty had 15 more articles in the media than Coty. MarketBeat recorded 17 mentions for e.l.f. Beauty and 2 mentions for Coty. e.l.f. Beauty's average media sentiment score of 0.83 beat Coty's score of 0.42 indicating that e.l.f. Beauty is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
42.4% of Coty shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 92.4% of e.l.f. Beauty shares are owned by institutional investors. 5.8% of Coty shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 5.2% of e.l.f. Beauty shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Coty received 129 more outperform votes than e.l.f. Beauty when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 64.16% of users gave e.l.f. Beauty an outperform vote while only 54.98% of users gave Coty an outperform vote.
Coty has a beta of 1.83, meaning that its share price is 83% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, e.l.f. Beauty has a beta of 1.6, meaning that its share price is 60% more volatile than the S&P 500.
e.l.f. Beauty has a net margin of 14.53% compared to Coty's net margin of 3.59%. e.l.f. Beauty's return on equity of 28.98% beat Coty's return on equity.
Summary
e.l.f. Beauty beats Coty on 13 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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